[Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller]@TWC D-Link bookRandom Reminiscences of Men and Events CHAPTER VII 19/22
Good men and women are wearing out their lives to raise money to sustain institutions which are conducted by more less or unskilled methods. This is a tremendous waste of our best material. We cannot afford to have great souls who are capable of doing the most effective work slaving to raise the money.
That should be a business man's task, and he should be supreme in managing the machinery of the expenses.
The teachers, the workers, and the inspired leaders of the people should be relieved of these pressing and belittling money cares.
They have more than enough to do in tilling their tremendous and never fully occupied field, and they should be free from any care which might in any wise divert them from that work. When these Benevolent Trusts come into active being, such organizations on broad lines will be sure to attract the brains of the best men we have in our commercial affairs, as great business opportunities attract them now.
Our successful business men as a class, and the exceptions only prove the truth of the assertion, have a high standard of honour.
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